Hi everyone,
Recent move to Tess is causing us to re-examine our data entry standards for school groups.
We're still struggling with a lot of this...
St. Elizabeth School vs Saint Elizabeth School
John Walsh Elementary vs Walsh, John Elementary
etc
Can anyone point me towards a good resource for naming conventions so we can standardize?
Thanks in advance for your help!
you will probably want to go with what you would like your mailing labels to read...
at the Arizona Science Center we have tried to make it as Generic as possible
if the school name is actually
Dr John H Smith Elementary School or J. S. Everyday elementary
we try to use the full name, without periods, in the areas that mailings would pull from...but in the SORT NAME we would just enter Smith Elementary or Everyday Elementary...dropping the initials or first names.
if the Schools name was an animal or place etc...we usually just did the whole thing...especially with the word DESERT...here in Phoenix there are a TON of schools with Desert in it...you need the whole name to sort a smaller list!
Thanks so much Curtis for this very helpful reply!
Chrissy
Hi Chrissy,
One other thing I would point out is that you can use Alias names for all the variations that someone might search for within Tess. We definitely make use of that here to account for periods and abbreviations among other things...